D. FINANCING OF ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION
MARCH — DECEMBER

ON PRELIMINARY FINANCIAL CONTROL.
20 MARCH 1919.

NOTE TO K. I. LANDAU.

Landau,

So according to the law one can hold everything up because of a part? You did not answer this question.

PROJECT DECISION ON PRELIMINARY CONTROL.

Commission [from...] is instructed to work out practical rules in the shortest possible time:

1) on strengthening responsibility for unlawful detention of documents in full because of incorrectness in a part;

2) on accelerating the movement of appropriations for wages;

3) on especially accelerated procedure for the movement of appropriations for certain groups of economic, industrial-productive expenditures;

4) on the obligatory presence of officials of State Control in those institutions where control is connected with economic operations.

¹ Note to Landau, member of the board of State Control, written by Lenin at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on March 25, 1919, during discussion of the question of preliminary audit by State Control of the financial activities of government institutions. One of the occasions for discussion was the refusal of State Control to approve a payroll for employees of the Shatura construction project, with State Control holding up the entire payroll because of an irregularity permitted in one of its parts.

After exchange of views on this question, the Council of People's Commissars adopted the project of practical rules on preliminary control proposed by Lenin and elected a commission of 2 persons, to which it entrusted, on the basis of Lenin's project and materials from the Supreme Council of the National Economy, to draw up a draft decree on preliminary financial control. The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, having discussed this question on March 28, 1919, decided to petition the Supreme Council of the National Economy for immediate issuance of the adopted decisions on this question.

* In the manuscript there is a blank to be filled with the names of commission members. Ed.

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The draft decrees of the Supreme Council of the National Economy on preliminary control were approved by the Council of People's Commissars on March 31, 1919, and published as a decree in the *Izvestiya of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee* No. 74 of April 5, 1919, under the heading: "On Change of Rules of Preliminary and Actual Audit."

The decree of the Council of People's Commissars (rules) "On the Conduct of Audit by State Control" was published in the *Izvestiya of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee* No. 263 of December 1, 1918.

NOTES ON THE TELEGRAM FROM L. N. KRITSMAN¹.
[April 4, 1919]

The release of monetary signs in the amount of 50 million to Kharkov and 25 million to Kiev is entirely insignificant and cannot save not only the forthcoming sugar campaign, but even the factories themselves from destruction. The situation is entirely exceptional in its dangerousness... We most urgently request that you save this enormous branch of the economy, which could provide sugar and bread, by extraordinarily sending immediately at least 150 million [to] Kharkov and 100 million [to] Kiev.

★

To Rykov: what has been done?

¹ L. N. Kritsman, in the capacity of authorized representative of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, was sent on assignment to Ukraine to conduct the sugar campaign.

DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY¹.
[April 14, 1919]

Check with Krestinsky whether all 10 million has been sent to Tver for the forestry authority. If yes, compose a telegram to Tver for the forestry authority.

¹ In response to Lenin's request, Krestinsky answered in a telephonogram: "Nogin asked to send to Tver 24, we sent 22. Syromolotov asked 10 for the forestry authority, we sent 8. Both sums are set aside. Today there was a representative from Tver, he remained satisfied. In my opinion there is no need to send telegrams."

Upon receiving Krestinsky's telephonogram, Lenin made a note on it: "to archive."

NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY.
17/IV [1919]

Comrade Krestinsky! This was reported by Evnevich. Return it to me with your review¹. 

Lenin.

¹ Lenin has in mind a letter from April 17, 1919, from Evnevich, an employee of the Main Committee for the Administration of the Rubber Industry.

In the letter, Evnevich reminded of the necessity to issue an instruction supplementing the decree of the Council of People's Commissars "On the Liquidation of Debts of State Enterprises." This decree was published in the *Izvestiya of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee* No. 52 of March 7, 1919. Directive to the Supreme Council of the National Economy, State Control, and the People's Commissariat of Finance to work out an instruction to the decree "within a week's time" was given by the Council of People's Commissars in point 6 of the mentioned decree.

TELEGRAM TO THE UKRAINIAN COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS.
Kiev
Council of People's Commissars
To Rakovsky
28. V. 1919

In your telegram 1815 again a complaint about lack of money. Krestinsky assures [me] that very much has been sent. They fully agreed with Litvinenko¹. Once and for all it is necessary to settle this misunderstanding. Find out at once how much you have received, how much is in transit. Answer quickly, precisely, over the joint signature of yourself and Litvinenko, in cipher, exactly how much you need. We are not miserly, but you guarantee order of distribution.

Lenin.

¹ I. Litvinenko — People's Commissar of Finance of Ukraine; in 1919 entered the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars as a representative of the Central Committee of the Borotbist party. From March 1920, after the merger of the Borotbists with the RCP(b) — member of the RCP(b). In 1922 managed the gubernial land department in Podolia Gubernia. In the autumn of 1922 was shot by remnants of Petlyurist bands during an inspection tour of the district while on grain procurement business in the vicinity of the city of Vinnitsa.

NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY¹.
To Krestinsky
[June 11, 1919]

How much? When was it sent? What is the reason that we have and cannot give?
Lenin.

In a telegram from Smolensk, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee M. I. Kalinin reported to Lenin of the necessity "in the most urgent order to transfer monetary signs of Minsk and Smolensk gubernias for distribution by districts," in order to prevent the breakdown of urgent work on forest procurement.

Lenin wrote the note to Krestinsky on Kalinin's telegram. Above the document, on the left, there is Lenin's note: "to archive for reference."

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NOTES TO Y. S. GANETSKY.
NOT EARLIER THAN JULY 16, 1919.

I.

To Ganetsky: draft the text of the reply¹.

To Ganetsky: such a text will not do. It is necessary to draft it thus: we promised you such-and-such million for such-and-such a period. We have sent you such-and-such at that-and-that time and we will send more such-and-such at that-and-that time.

Draft such a text at once².

¹ Y. S. Ganetsky, member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Finance, was to draft the text of a reply to a telegram request received by Lenin on July 16, 1919, from Kh. G. Rakovsky to send promised money in connection with an acute monetary crisis in Ukraine. Ganetsky drafted the following reply: "Today 300 is being sent, of which 50 is intended for Kaluga. Henceforth shipments will be according to plan."

² Above the document there is Lenin's note: "(in reply to Rakovsky)." For details see Y. S. Ganetsky. "Lenin and the Nationalization of Private Banks." *Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 6, 1926, p. 12.

NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY.
[End of August 1919]

Unclear, when will it be possible to [produce] 600 m[illion] per day?
2 shifts of 12 hours cannot be done.

Think about whether it is possible to add one more shift — 3 shifts of 8 hours¹.

¹ The matter concerns the release of money by the expedition for the preparation of government papers, evacuated from Petrograd to Penza in the spring of 1918. Lenin's note to Krestinsky was written, apparently, at a session of the Council of People's Commissars. In reply to Lenin's question: "when will it be possible [to produce] 600 million per day?" — Krestinsky answered: "from September 1." The date indicated by Krestinsky served as the basis for dating the document printed above.

NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY¹.
[Not earlier than September 1, 1919]

One cannot requisition all at once, and besides, this is not a draft decree.

I propose: to entrust [to] ½—5 commissars
or to reach agreement on measures
or to submit a draft decree to the Council of People's Commissars.

¹ Lenin replies to a note from N. N. Krestinsky, who had proposed that he sign a draft decree on limiting the period for acceptance of applications for pledges. Lenin's cautious attitude toward Krestinsky's proposal was caused by the fact that the draft proposed by Krestinsky could harm the interests of small holders (see Y. Ganetsky "Lenin and the Nationalization of Private Banks." *Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 6, 1925, p. 5—15).

NOTE TO T. I. POPOV.

To T. I. Popov¹ [Not later than September 1919]

Have you checked
1) Whether 100 boxes² have been received?
2) Whether they have been stored in a safe place?
3) What is the security?

¹ T. I. Popov — commissar of the Moscow office of the State Bank.

² The boxes contained credit notes printed by the expedition for the preparation of government papers.

TELEGRAM TO THE PERM AND EKATERINBURG GUBERNIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES*.

Perm three addresses: gubernial executive committee. To Commissar of Perm Railway Emshanov. To Commissar of Perm Plant Goznak Minkin.

Ekaterinburg gubernial executive committee. To Member of the Revolutionary War Council Lokhvitsky.
To Member of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Railways Kovylkin.

To Commissar of Perm Railway Rudy.

[October 20, 1919]

In view of the necessity to urgently equip and put into operation the Perm plant Goznak, we propose that all civil, military and

* The text of the telegram is written by N. N. Krestinsky. Additions and signature — in Lenin's handwriting. Ed.